Prosecutors want 30 years for Canadian convicted of aiding Mumbai terrorists

CHICAGO - Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to give the maximum 30-year sentence to a Chicago businessman convicted of supporting a terrorist group that staged the deadly 2008 attacks on Mumbai, India.

U.S. prosecutors made the request in a filing Monday evening in the case of Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian citizen. Rana and his family immigrated to Canada from Pakistan in the late 1990s.

He was convicted in 2011 of aiding terrorism in Denmark and aiding a terrorist group that staged the India attacks that left more than 160 people dead.

Jurors convicted Rana of supporting a never-carried-out plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and for supporting the Pakistani group.